Greater New Orleans

Preserving A Cultural Heritage

NEW
ORLEANS -- The Catholic Cultural Heritage Center will hold a benefit Saturday,
March 2, to benefit the Old Ursuline Convent Museum and the Monsignor Crosby W.
Kern Memorial Exhibition Fund.

The
event, "Preserving Our Cultural Heritage," will be held aboard the Steamboat
Natchez dockside from 2 to 4:30 p.m. and will feature a live auction.

The
fund was created in honor of Monsignor Kern, who had been Rector of St. Louis
Cathedral and director of the Old Ursuline Convent Museum, the oldest building
in the Mississippi River Valley. He
passed away in 2012.

In 2004, he worked with the Vatican to create
the Catholic Cultural Heritage Center, which included the Old Ursuline Convent,
St. Louis Cathedral and St. Anthony's Garden at the rear of the Cathedral. In
2006 the Cultural Center hosted an exhibit by the Vatican School of Mosaics,
works that had never before left the Vatican.

The
fund will be used to help the center stage future exhibitions.

"While
Monsignor Kern never had any biological children, the Catholic Cultural
Heritage Center was his spiritual and cultural child and we wanted to continue
his passion for preserving our multi-cultural and multi-ethnic past," said
Barbara Turner Windhorst, chairwoman of the Board of the Catholic Cultural
Heritage Center. For more information and tickets call 525-9585 extension 135.